Question

He considered the caste system prevalent in India an epitome of slavery. In one of his famous books he described the hardships felt by the lower castes. Who was he?

विकल्प

• Raja Rammohan Roy

• Swami Dayanand Saraswati

• Jyotiba Phule

• Ramakrishna Paramhansa

Answer 1

Jyotiba Phule

Explanation:

Jyotiba (Jyotirao) Phule criticized the caste system as an “epitome of slavery” and in his famous book Gulamgiri (Ghulamgiri) he described the hardships and distress of the lower castes; he also founded the Satya Shodhak Samaj in 1873 to secure social justice for the oppressed.